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In reply to the discussion: He's going to be utterly humiliated [View all]Jon King
(1,910 posts)I think Trump knows from internal polls that it is over. Now his rallies and twitter are about firing up his base for what he hopes will be his private army to protect him once he loses. But in the end it will be a nothing burger. The vast majority of his supporters besides the very wealthy who want to pay no taxes, are just local nut jobs. They will cry in disbelief election week and go on to the next shiny object. Once those Michigan clowns had their mugshots posted all over the world, I doubt many local plumbers in the militia want to throw away their lives for Trump. I think he does not concede, tries to fire his supporters up on Twitter, nothing really happens, then Trump skulks off to begin his legal battles. The good thing is Facebook and You Tube have eliminated the pre election planning of his supporters with militia and Qanon bents, so they really can not communicate anymore in large numbers. It would be far more likely for millions of liberals to take to the streets if the election was stolen than it would be for even a dozen Trump supporters to gather when he loses.
Could there be a few cases of his nutty lone wolf supporters doing something awful, sadly this will likely happen. But large scale violence and chaos that Trump wants when he loses, not going to happen. His rallies are mostly just blank faced dimwits with zero plans to do a thing but complain.